The Exposure Of Thiessen As A Lying Hack

The line I am getting from
Thiessen's defenders is that, Well, he criticized her, too, in his book.
Let's
see: One person is a reporter who worked alongside me the Wall Street
Journal.
The other was a flack for Jesse Helms and Rumsfeld. Who am I more likely
to
trust? It puzzles me that my old newspaper, The Washington Post,
would
hire Thiessen to write for its op-ed page. How many former Bush
speechwriters
does one newspaper need?

Thiessen's account of the foiled Heathrow plot, for
example, is "completely and utterly wrong," according to Peter Clarke,
who was
the head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism branch in 2006.

"The
deduction that
what was being planned was an attack against airliners was entirely
based upon
intelligence gathered in the U.K.,"
Clarke said, adding that Thiessen's "version of events is simply not
recognized
by those who were intimately involved in the airlines investigation in
2006."
Nor did Scotland Yard need to be told about the perils of terrorists
using
liquid explosives. The bombers who attacked London's
public-transportation system in
2005, Clarke pointed out, "used exactly the same materials."

Btw, congrats, Tom, on winning the National Magazine Award for Best Blog. We still love you at the Dish.

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